Video, Photos: Large Crowd Celebrates Mendy Rubashkin’s Bar Mitzvah

[Video and photos below.] 13 year-old Mendy Rubashkin celebrated his bar mitzvah last night, but his father was not among the many guests. Though hundreds of guests filled the room in New City, NY, the absence of Reb Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin waspalpable.

Sholom Mordechai is currently held at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Otisville, NY, after being unfairly sentenced to 27 years on bank fraud charges.

The only way Sholom Mordechai could participate in his son’s bar mitzvah was through a phone call during which he addressed the crowd of his family and friends.